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If you do not sign back up before the deadline, i will start actively seeking your replacement on August 24th. Those that are not part of the league and wish to join may post your interest here. Your post will essentially be your "dibs" if someone does not join.

Rules (it's long, but not really complicated):

theJ wrote:

1. Each team can keep from 0-3 players from their previous end-of-season roster – Depending on what players are left on your team at the end of the previous season, you may wish to “keep” none of your players.

2. Players drafted in the first 2 rounds of a draft can not be kept in the following season – This prevents the top tier of players from being kept and creating massively unfair teams. Due to rule 4 below, the first 2 rounds technically couldn’t be kept anyways.

3. A Player can only be kept a maximum of 3 consecutive times – This rule is there just to keep things interesting. If you want the same player(s) on the same team year after year, maybe you should start a Dynasty league instead.

EDIT: Clarifier: A player may be kept 3 times consecutively, regardless of which team is keeping them. Meaning two teams can't trade 3rd year keepers so that they can keep them for 3 more years.

4. For each player that is kept (and was originally drafted by a team), that manager must give up a draft pick 2 picks higher than where the player was initially drafted the year before – This ensures that players that improve in talent each season are accounted for. If Frank Gore was drafted in the 13th round last year, you probably don’t want him counting for a teams 13th pick for the next 3 years.

Example: Wide receiver Brandon Marshall was drafted in the 11th round last year. If kept, this year he would account for the teams 9th round pick. If kept again, the following year he would be considered the 7th round pick.

5. Any player that went undrafted the previous year, but is being kept, will count as a team’s 3rd to last draft pick – This rule is there to slightly reward good drafting, as keeping free agent pickups are a little pricier than last round draft picks.

Example: Marques Colston was picked up off free agency last season by a team. If the league has 15 rounds in its draft, and the manager wishes to keep Colston, he must give up his 12th round pick the following season (as opposed to a player drafted in the 15th round, who would only count for the 13th pick).

6. If you do not have a draft pick for a round to give up to keep a player, you must give up the next higher pick – This will only happen if you keep your second to last rounder and a free agent pickup (or multiple free agent pickups). In this case, you will lose your 12th and 13th rounder (assuming a 15 round draft).

Example: You wish to keep two free agents that you picked up during last season. Because both of them would qualify for your 12th pick (in a 15 round draft), one must count as the 12th pick, but the other will have to be your 11th pick.

7. No trading of picks or players (players can still be traded during the season before the trade deadline - This is to keep teams from trading a player that wasn't going to be kept in order to get an extra draft pick. In a way, this rewards the team extra for good drafting, but also gives an unfair advantage for the following season.

To clarify:

-For all trades, you will give up the draft pick that he was chosen at. So if i drafted Cedric Benson in the 7th and traded him, he's still worth the 7th rounder and the team who chooses to keep him will give up a 5th.

-However, if you drafted say, Jamal Charles in the 13th, and dropped him, his round value is void. So the team that picks him up in FA will give up a 12th, not an 11th.

I will investigate all keepers for how they were acquired, so you don't have to worry about it. I'll end up posting here what you'll be giving up. Feel free to give me this info if you'd like, it will make the investigation easier.

Addendum: I want to head this off before it occurs:

In order to keep a player, he has to actually play a game with your fantasy team. Meaning, you can't pick up Dez Bryant, then use your 12th rounder to keep him (he's on IR). The same goes for any player on IR.

This is meant to discourage owners from picking up guys on IR with the intent of using them as keeper players the following years.

Oh, and i need those four in Red above to sign up still. If you didn't get an email, PM me your email address (i won't spam you) so i can send you the invite. It has to be done that way so you can take over a certain team.

And it seems that Yahoo has some fancy keeper tool this year. So ahead and designate keepers using that, but still post them here. I still have to do some work to get them in the right spots in the draft._________________If you're not in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

I haven't had much time to get on to post lately, let alone enough time to try to actively keep up with this. So if anyone else on the forum would like to take my spot, I'd be willing to give it to someone who may be a little more active than what I will be going forward. If we near the draft, and no one has taken the offer, I'll gladly stay in the league with you fellas._________________Kiltman on the sig

I haven't had much time to get on to post lately, let alone enough time to try to actively keep up with this. So if anyone else on the forum would like to take my spot, I'd be willing to give it to someone who may be a little more active than what I will be going forward. If we near the draft, and no one has taken the offer, I'll gladly stay in the league with you fellas.

Sorry to see you go. You've been a mainstay. Didn't you win it one year? Maybe before we started doing it on Yahoo?

You all heard the man. First come, first served. (you must post in this thread)_________________If you're not in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?